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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a global downturn in economic activity, with new social and economic conditions. For executive secretariat professionals, the pandemic has significantly contributed to change the way they operate, their tasks, activity, and importance in the organizations. The present investigation intends to understand the perception of the executive secretarial professionals of companies about the exercise of their profession, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results obtained show that there have been significant changes in the new conditions and requirements inherent to the exercise of the profession, in terms of their competencies and responsibilities, as well in the implementation of new forms of work. © 2021, IGI Global.
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Introduction: Initially identified in the city of Wuhan, China in 2019, Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), demonstrated itself with a high dissemination power. Due to the potential for contagion, the World Health Organization recommended isolation measures to countries, avoiding agglomerations, reducing the incidence of cases. Vitoria de Santo Antao, a municipality located near the Metropolitan Region of Recife, required in this context an essential role of epidemiological surveillance to develop contingency strategies and actions in this pandemic health scenario. Objective: To report the experience of health residents working in the epidemiological surveillance sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: Experience report carried out by health residents of the Multiprofessional Residency Program for the Interiorization of Health Care to strengthen epidemiological surveillance in the face of the pandemic in the municipality of Vitoria de Santo Antao. Results: Two forms were created via Google Forms in order to register and monitor cases of influenza syndrome, SRAG and COVID-19 in the municipality. The creation of daily epidemiological bulletins for the dissemination of data was adopted by the health surveillance sector, presenting the most pertinent information obtained from the monitoring of cases of SRAG, COVID-19 and Flu Syndrome of the local population, always comparing with the state and federal scenarios. Conclusions: The pandemic scenario brought about a readjustment of residents' activities, imposing on them the challenge of adapting to a new epidemiological context, envisioning a look at the needs of the territories and their learning process, strengthening the surveillance actions during the scenario of pandemic.
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BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) has imposed a new reality that presents several challenges for healthcare professionals. The main challenge has been the lack of proper training in relation to an unknown disease. OBJECTIVE: To investigate healthcare professionals' acquisition of knowledge of a new airway management protocol for COVID-19 through their participation in simulation training. DESIGN AND SETTING: Pre and post-test study with purpose sampling, carried out in a tertiary-level hospital in the city of Campinas, state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional pre and post-test intervention among healthcare professionals working in the intensive care unit and emergency department of a large hospital. The training was carried out using an in situ simulation scenario and the participants answered pre and post-tests consisting of a 20-item questionnaire about the new protocol. RESULTS: The paired-sample t test demonstrated that there was a significant increase in test score (t = -19.06;P < 0.001), from before the training (M = 8.62;standard deviation, SD = 3.53) to after the simulation training (M = 17.02;SD = 1.76). CONCLUSIONS: The simulated training had a positive impact on the healthcare professionals' acquisition of the COVID-19 protocol. We also demonstrated that in situ simulation training was an efficient tool for implementing new protocols, thus bringing benefits to healthcare systems, professionals and patients.